Intelligentsia during a TWA Hotel: Contemporary Coffee Meets 1962

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The TWA Hotel, that non-stop this past summer during Terminal 5 of JFK International Airport in Queens. Courtesy print by Taylor Morabito.

Mid-century complicated elements have been splashed via dozens of cafes that non-stop this year, though nowhere is a coffee bar some-more entirely awash in a pattern character than during a TWA Hotel during JFK Airport in Queens, New York.

The coffee bar — along with during slightest 3 mobile coffee carts — are all run by Chicago Third Wave colonize Intelligentsia Coffee, that came to a hotel by an existent attribute with a developer MCR. The growth organisation was also behind a High Line Hotel in Chelsea, where Intelligentsia opened a initial New York sell outpost approach behind in 2013.

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The Intelligentsia Main bar during a TWA Hotel. Courtesy photo, by Taylor Morabito.

The TWA hotel was creatively designed by Eero Saarinen as a operative airport depot for Trans World Airlines, opening in 1962 before shutting in 2001 and portion as an deserted nonetheless concurrently iconic architectural landmark to travelers by JFK ever since.

The Intelligentsia categorical bar sits opposite from a check-in opposite while a mobile carts offer discerning use to hotel guest and other depot visitors within a 200,000-square-foot lobby.

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Three mobile Intelligentsia coffee bars offer guest via a 200,000-square-foot lobby. Courtesy photo, by Taylor Morabito.

Two red La Marzocco KB90 machines flanked by Mazzer grinders holder out espresso drinks atop a categorical bar, and a three-group Poursteady appurtenance mechanically replicates particular pourover brews. Intelligentsia during a TWA is also charity flash-chilled cold brews and other tapped drinks, along with teas from Kilogram, and present coffee constructed in unison with Sudden.

Intelligentsia during a TWA Hotel is located during One Idlewild Drive, during Terminal 5, JFK International Airport in Queens, New York. 

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